The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-03

be scrambled, and had Just manased.l
to get a few feet up a tree, when the
elephant came up, and, breasting the
bank, stretched out his
trunk to lay hold of the man. Luck
he was just out of reach, and he
lost no time getting up higher. Being
unable either to reach the man or to
get up the steep bank, the elephant
walked a short distance down stream,
and getting up the rivers bank in an
other place, came up to the south side
of the tree. Stretching out his
and failing to get
hold of the man, he tore down
some branches; and making another
circuit, came up to the tree from the
east. Again the fierce animal failed to
reach the man; and again he made a
circuit in the jungle, and came up to
the tree from the north side, where,
again failing in his purpose, he broke
down some branches, and after stand
ing about for a short time, moved
slowly away into the jungles. 1t was
dark before the man ventured to de-
scend the tree. In the meantime the
remainder of the people hiding under
the bank had climbed up and run off
to the village, leaving n gun and
some swords at the bottom of the river.
About the time the elephant had at
tackled the man, a rumor reached the
bazaar at Dhyde that the elephant was
coming. The effect was instantaneous
and magical. A regular stampede COM
menced, the people there assembled on
the weekly market day, scampering of
in every direction, some leaving their
property behind, others leaving their
OWE and taking that belonging to their
neighbors, and a few taking both their
own and that of their neighbors. The
scene is described by those who wit
messed it as something never to be for
gotten!
On the forenoon of the 9th of Novem-
Der, the deputy commissioner with his
party, which had now been augmented
by the arrival of the superintendent
of police of the Balaghat district, ar
rived at a place called Kosmara,
where the elephant had been
last seen. They were now hot
on his track, and the chase became ex-
citing. It was decided that their best
plan was to surprise the animal at mid
day, when he would be either asleep or
in the water. They halted outside the
jungle, and dismounting, sent back all
the superfuous men, keeping only
their spare gun carriers, the party of
Bygas, two men armed with police
muskets, two men leading five dogs and
a she elephant belonging to the zemin-
dar Qandholder) of Hatta. Then they
moved off in perfect silence, two of the
Bygas following up the trail in front,
while the remainder stayed with the
main body, and expecting every mo-
ment to hear the trumpet" of the
savage beast and the crash of his un-
wieldy bulk through the brushwood.
After they had proceeded for about a
mile in this fashion, the Bygas in front
suddenly stopped short on the bank OF
a dry stream, and pointing to the front
with their spears, exclaimed in a whis-
per: .There he isl" And there he was
u enough, lying at a distance OF
about thirty-five yards in front
of them, asleep in the long
grass, over which they could see
the immense arch of his left ribs and
a small portion of the spine. Not be-
ing able to get a good shot from where
they stood, they moved a few PAGES to
their left. The slight noise made in
doing so aroused the animal, and he
raised himself, as if to listen, showing
above the grass the top of his head as
| far as the ear and just above the eye.
They Immediately raised their rifles
and fired, and the creature disappeared
for a second, but was seen the Mex
moment, and saluted with another shot
as he went up the opposite bank of the
nullah. He then disappeared in the
| jungle, but was found two hundred
yards. further on, standing under {
mohwa tree. Two more shots started
him off again, and there was a hot chase
after him for about fifteen hundred
yards, a brisk Independent fire be
ing opened upon him whenever h
showed himself. At last, just a
they went down into a nullah
the elephant turned half round, expos
ing the whole of his right side. Tw,
shots were Immediately fired into hi
right ear; and with a shrill trumpet
the huge beast fell. burying his RICH
tusk deep into the earth, while at tn
same moment the Bygas rushed forwar'
with a yell of triumph and hurled thei
spears into the carcass!
BE- was found to be a full-grow1
ma3e, measuring t~wenty-six feet iron
the tip of his trunk to the end of hi
tail. His height was nine feet fv
inches; and length of tusks, two fee
five inches. He was in splendid condi
ton, being covered with a thick laye
of fat. His skin had been perforate
by six bullets.
So ended the career of this extraol
dinarily bl%oodthirsty animal. He ha
killed in all forty-one persons-twent
in the Balaghat district-and wounde
several. So great vas the fear he il
spired, that whole families became a,
customed to pass the night on platform
erected on high trees rather than j
their huts. Balaghat is still a very will
district, and men-eating tigers are nj
unfrequently to be met with there; bl
snch intense and widespread terror h.
perhaps never been felt before or sint
the time of the notorious .'man-eating
elephant of Mundla.-Chambers' ~
nal.
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greeley paid for Chappaqua by h
lectures. Bayard Taylor cleared in IL